Crazy stuff said against legal marijuana

December 2, 2015 12:30 PM

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Crazy shit said against legal marijuana:

Just when you think you've heard it all about marijuana ... a DEA agent chimes in with ... (Hint: we now know why the famous Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog got so vicious!)

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The Cannabist reports on the fear of "stoned rabbits": “Personally, I have seen entire mountainsides subjected to pesticides, harmful chemicals, deforestation and erosion,” (the agent) said. “The ramifications to the flora, the animal life, the contaminated water, are still unknown.”

(The agent) said that at some illegal marijuana grow sites he saw “rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana. …” He continued: “One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone.”

The Cannabist reports on the fear of "stoned rabbits": “Personally, I have seen entire mountainsides subjected to pesticides, harmful chemicals, deforestation and erosion,” (the agent) said. “The ... more

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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says marijuana is cause of killings …

“The seemingly innocent drug that’s being legalized around the country — in this city, people are killing each other over marijuana,” he said (according to the site DNAinfo.com)

So you have to ask yourself, why are people killing each other over marijuana and what can be done to stop people killing each other over it? First off, they are killing each other for it because it’s an illegal lucrative trade. Second, the power of the United States of America has been used for decades to stop that illegal trade and guess what …

So, legalize it and bring that trade out of the back alleys, where it will persist no matter how much more illegal Bratton thinks it should be. Once that happens, grievances over pricing and availability will be solved the good old-fashioned capitalist way (lawsuits, that is).

Photo: New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, right, speaks during a news conference at police headquarters, Wednesday. less

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says marijuana is cause of killings …

“The seemingly innocent drug that’s being legalized around the country — in this city, people are killing each other over

When discussing marijuana legalization at Senate hearing in January with Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., weightily argued: "Lady Gaga says she's addicted to it and it is not harmless."

According to People mag, Gaga said that she smoked marijuana to deal with the mental and physical challenges of her career …“I have been addicted to it and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping and it's a form of self-medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.”

When discussing marijuana legalization at Senate hearing in January with Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., weightily argued: "Lady Gaga says she's addicted to it and it is not harmless."

As we reported: Ann Coulter doesn’t like pot. She says she never had smoked it. And she told Piers Morgan that legalizing it will mean more slacker potheads that she will have to support with her hard-earned tax money to support them. It always gets back to the Welfare State, doesn’t it?

“You can’t get anything done with a pothead,” she said. “They can’t perform daily functions. They’re going to be on my tax bill.”

So are all pot heads already on welfare? Or, are all people on welfare pot heads? Well, whatever she means, she clearly hates poor people. And, who can blame her! Sitting around smoking weed all day and popping out babies (even the men pop out babies) and getting in her way when she's heading for the bank, laughing.

But wait, there's more. Turns out she had a thing for the pool guy but he couldn't get the pool clean ... Coulter bases her scientific knowledge of pot heads all on her pool guy from a time she lived in California. Her pool had green mold on the bottom. Her pool guy was a pothead, she said, but how she knew, who knows? less

As we reported: Ann Coulter doesn’t like pot. She says she never had smoked it. And she told Piers Morgan that legalizing it will mean more slacker potheads that she will have to support with her hard-earned

“I mean, I’m a tolerant fellow ... this is a pretty liberal state, and I am sure there will be people arguing to put something on the ballot at some point.”

That point is this year, but likely without the Governor on board.

“I’m not leading any charge for further chemical actions,” he said. “We’ve got an awful lot of that going on right now, starting with Ritalin with little kids.”

Because children will be prescribed marijuana: A joint a day or maybe infused formula! Also, what the heck is he saying about doctors prescribing Ritalin?

American competitiveness hasn't suffered from half the country trying marijuana at some point already. Not to mention that things like a healthy middle class, decent diets, vacations from television and video games and, you know, good schools (let alone great schools) might also play a role in our competitiveness.

Photo: Gov. Jerry Brown (C) holds a golf club presented to him by San Bernardino Mayor Patrick Morris (L) while Paul Misener, Amazon Vice President Global Public Policy, stands at the podium during a news conference at the opening of Amazon's San Bernardino fulfillment center, located on the former Norton Air Force Base golf course, Oct. 29, 2013.

“A whole lot of folks now are talking about legalizing pot. … You can go to Congress. You can get a conversation. You could get Democrats and Republicans who would say, “We ought to change our drug policy in some way,” and you could have a real conversation. You could have hearings. You could look at the problem. You could discuss commonsense changes that maybe should happen or shouldn’t happen. This president didn’t do that. He just said, “The laws say one thing”—and mind you, these are criminal laws; these are laws that say if you do X, Y, and Z, you will go to prison. The president announced, “No, you won’t.”

Because, of course, Congress is working so well these days and is known far and wide for civil, honest and constructive conversations. And, of course, the feds made it clear that anything even hinting at being outside of the narrow channel of legalization in Colorado and Washington will be prosecuted. But hey, let’s not let nuance get between us Americans.

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is among Senators arriving at the U.S. Capitol on the first day the Senate convenes for 2014 on Monday, January 6, 2014, in Washington, DC.

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Former Broncos tight end Shannon Sharpe says the NFL league’s policy toward marijuana will never change “because of the way kids follow what NFL players do.”

But as the Washington Post points out: “Sorry, Mr. Sharpe, but kids who idolize NFL players are already bombarded by beer ads, the contracts for which enrich team owners and, by extension, players. And alcohol is objectively more harmful than marijuana in terms of its damage to the body, its addictiveness and its association with violent behavior.”

Photo: Shannon Sharp poses with his bust at the Enshrinement Ceremony for the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 6, 2011 in Canton, Ohio.

"These drugs are illegal because of the harmful effect they have on users and on society," the party wrote on its website. "We will continue protecting the interests of families across this country. Our government has no interest in seeing marijuana legalized or made more easily available to youth."

Until it comes to alcohol, then we won’t.

Photo: Chrystia Freeland, Liberal candidate in the Toronto Centre byelection, campaigns on Church Street, helped by party leader Justin Trudeau.

… nearly 23 percent of seniors in American high schools right now admit to smoking marijuana recently. That's an incredible stat.

So why is this all happening? One of the reasons is because the pot legalizers have made the drug glamorous and the media has played along. … Now more bad news, combine the drug aspect with the Internet. According to a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 75 percent of 12 to 17 year olds in the USA have cell phones and virtually all of them text…

Here's a kicker, a study by the University of Winnipeg in Canada says students who text more than 100 times a day are 30 percent less likely to be ethical or principled in life. Are we getting all this? Young people in America are combining drugs, alcohol, and high-tech to build false lives to run away from reality.

In China, young people are encouraged to compete, be disciplined, to live in the real world. Not here.

Huh. Okay, let’s pack it up and go to godless, communist, state-planning for families etc. China. Where they apparently live in Reality.

Photo: Talk show host Bill O'Reilly during an interview on Nov. 18, 2013.

Tina Brown, the former Daily Beast/Newsweek editor-in-chief and naturalized U.S. citizen, warned that legalized marijuana would make the United States "a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation" and make it less competitive with China.

What’s with thinking Americans are fat? Does she mean pot makes people fat, because we thought American overeating and junk-food diets were doing that. And, of course, it will make us “dumber” because we’re already dumb? Or, is that “Dumber because our kids are crammed into schools and taught by underpaid and undervalued teachers”? Or what?

Sleepier, well, okay. Pot can make you sleepier … unlike watching hours upon hours of television every night while swilling beer.

Photo: Tina Brown attends the "Girls" season three premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on January 6, 2014 in New York City.

Tina Brown, the former Daily Beast/Newsweek editor-in-chief and naturalized U.S. citizen, warned that legalized marijuana would make the United States "a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation" and make it less

The deeper sources of happiness usually involve a state of going somewhere, becoming better at something, learning more about something, overcoming difficulty and experiencing a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

… yes … and?

This process usually involves using the powers of reason, temperance and self-control — not qualities one associates with being high.

… okay …

In legalizing weed, citizens of Colorado are, indeed, enhancing individual freedom. But they are also nurturing a moral ecology in which it is a bit harder to be the sort of person most of us want to be.

“Marijuana legalization may be the same-sex marriage of 2014 — a trend that reveals itself in the course of the year as obvious and inexorable. At the risk of exposing myself as the fuddy-duddy I seem to have become, I hope not.

“This is, I confess, not entirely logical and a tad hypocritical. At the risk of exposing myself as not the total fuddy-duddy of my children’s dismissive imaginings, I have done my share of inhaling, though back in the age of bell-bottoms and polyester.”

Wait. So, it’s cool to use marijuana if you did it back when polyester was cool? Or, it’s not cool, and you’ve always been duddy? And, what the hell are you saying about marriage equality?

“Decriminalization or re-legalization would mean that certain drugs would be legally available, but regulated by the government which would mean restrictions on advertising, age limitations, restrictions on the amount purchased at one time, requirements on the form in which certain drugs would be supplied and maybe a ban on sales to intoxicated persons, etc.”

And that sounds a lot like what I-502 in Washington and Amendment 64 in Colorado do. But wait, there’s more:

“It would mean significantly changing what would happen to people who were arrested for possession of the drug(s) in question (to my thinking, a sentence that would fit the crime as opposed to arbitrarily sending first-time offenders to prison for an egregious amount of time instead of getting them the help they truly need), and perhaps helping more people instead of damaging them for life.”

Right, except that you left in the part about being arrested and you’d have to figure out what the charge is. If the charge amounts to nothing or next to it, then the black market would become a raging fire of illegal pot blazing out of control.

But, at least the kids would be safe! Unless they get it from the black market!!! Wait second! Save the children! Arrest everyone!

Dr. John Sharp and Dr. Howard Samuels attend Recovery Fair Presented By The Fix And The Hills Treatment Center on November 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif.

“Legalization would be a nightmare. All of a sudden, marijuana would be sold in grocery stores and 7-Elevens. There'd be advertisements in newspapers and on TV. The advent of the many different brands of pot would create a whole new industry that would mirror the alcohol and tobacco industries.”

Hmmmmm. And, of course, our prisons are not full of alcohol and tobacco sellers and buyers because … well, because people have decided that adults are able to make a personal choices in these matters. And, they figure, the threat to “our” children doesn’t outweigh the right of adults.

Consequently, we live in a society that allows access to alcohol, cigarettes, pornography and junk food and gambling and motorcycles ...

“Is that the society we're passionate about becoming? A ‘loaded’ society?”

Jiminy Christmas! Stop getting “loaded” everyone. Just stop it! Right! Now! All you poor and stressed out middle class babies suck it up! You think you’re stressed out because of the economy and the economic and social future of your children but you’re not. You’re stressed out because you’re drug-seeking fiends! Why just yesterday I was helping out a Hollywood executive who wished he had never started smoking marihuana …

"Alcohol, unlike marijuana, has a very long, widespread history in terms of the vast majority of the populations of Western culture before the Old Testament." … Because of that cultural legacy, he said, "we're stuck with alcohol whether we like it or not."

Yeah, but hasn’t marijuana use been around at least as long? Oh, wait, that’s right. White people used alcohol, and so we’re stuck with it. But brown people historically used marijuana, and we can stop that crap right now!

Photo: Kevin A. Sabet, Co-founder and Director of Project SAM, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Conflicts between State and Federal Marijuana Laws," on Capitol Hill, September 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on conflicts between state and federal marijuana laws.

Sabet also claimed the true goal of legalization backers – who reaped 55 percent of the vote in Colorado and 56 percent in Washington in November 2012 – is to legalize other drugs.

“… you have advocacy groups, most of whom's main intention is to legalize cocaine and heroin down the road."

I knew it! Get us hooked on legal weed and then bring in the big boys to finish us off. It’s just a matter of time. Boy, all you stoners are sure going to be sorry when they make you snort cocaine and shoot up heroin. But you’ll wish then you’d just been carted off to jail for pot.

Because, of course, we’re all brainless sheep in need of big government law enforcers to save us from ourselves.

Photo: (L-R) John Urquhart, Sheriff for King County, Wash., Jack Finlaw, Chief Legal Counsel for the office of Governor John W. Hickenlooper, and Kevin A. Sabet, Co-founder and Director of Project SAM, testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Conflicts between State and Federal Marijuana Laws," on Capitol Hill, September 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on conflicts between state and federal marijuana laws.

“For a generation of liberals, legalization of marijuana has become a harmless — if not inevitable — issue.

“Not for Patrick Kennedy (according to the Washington Post in 2013). The former Rhode Island congressman and scion of the famed Democratic dynasty has taken a surprising turn to the right in this debate.

“Marijuana destroys the brain and expedites psychosis,” he told us Tuesday. “It’s just overall a very dangerous drug.”

How in the hell could it be surprising? He started an anti-legalization battle group after melting his life down with drugs, booze and rock and roll. And, if any political group is bound to take up the nanny-state-stance it’s liberals … you know, they know what’s best for society and all that.

Anyway, if marijuana did what he said it does then we all – all of us from liberals to conservatives, religious to secularists -- would be surrounded by, beset by, crowded out on the bus by bong zombies. But we’re not, so there must be a little more subtlety to it than he’s letting on.

Photo: (Former) Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) meets with staff and constituents from Rhode Island in his office on Capitol Hill February 23, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Patrick Kennedy of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) also told said in USNews and World Report that Colorado and Washington state … are "canaries in the coal mine."

"There are a lot of 'unintended consequences'... that will make them ponder whether this was the right decision," Kennedy said, predicting more traffic accidents, increased school truancy, higher drop-out rates and a general decrease in public health.

The fact is that marijuana has been pervasive throughout our society for at least 50 years. That also means that since marijuana hasn’t caused those problems already, something drastic will have to change for marijuana to suddenly cause these problems.

SAM points to legalization as that trigger. Their argument has been that many more people will use pot than use it now. But, brothers and sisters, millions already use it regularly and so millions of more users would have to take to pot in a major way to cause a “general decrease in public health.”

Seems a bit of stretch.

And, they argue that big weed like big tobacco will create herds of addicts dependent on the drug, and big weed will trick them into using marijuana through advertisement.

Unfortunately for that argument, marijuana has nothing even close to the addictive powers of cigarettes or alcohol. And withdrawal from extremely heavy marijuana use is on par with withdrawal from caffeine or junk food. With most science showing that the effects of heavy marijuana use go away after sustained abstinence.

So, marijuana is a drug and it should be treated that way and kept out of the hands of children and liberals, but that doesn’t mean many thousands of people should be put in prison or dragged to court or therapy for it every year.